Little Operator big-button phone aids child emergencies
OS a Playskool Electronics introduces the Little Operator, a big-button telephone for kids that can be programmed with emergency numbers using color cards. Cards include 911 fire police doctor hospital ambulance and family icons. Priced around 40 dollars.
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Reunions prompt reflections on change and humility
Dear Ann Landers: reunion letters contrast gloating about past boons with the reality that many have grown or faded. The column urges renewal of old ties, blessing versus boasting, and recognizing everyone has faced life’s ups and downs.
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Making Friends in Childhood Social Bonds and Development
Children form friendships from toddlers onward with varying patterns based on play styles and age. As kids grow preschool to early elementary, selection favors similar play, quiet with quiet, noisy with noisy. By late elementary and adolescence, friendships mirror adult criteria for compatible characteristics.
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Wyndel Furman
University of Denver
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Ireland Turns Turtles Into TV Gold For Global Market
The Industrial Development Authority backs Murakami Wolf Dublin Ltd in producing 22 minute Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons in Dublin. Irish studios create about 13 000 drawings per episode while Californians provide story ideas, with final products sent to Burbank for videocassette production.
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Creative home activities for kids with simple materials
A Syracuse mother advises stuffing a big box with paper, cardboard, paste, tape and crafty items then letting children create while you provide materials and praise. Additional ideas from Gerryann Olson include making soap balls driveway chalk murals foil crafts basket weaving mandalas play dough and garbage art with safe supervision and encouragement.
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Syracuse
Gerryann Olson
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Royal Oak
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Quayle Wife Reflects On Spouse Role And Ambition
Marilyn Quayle, wife of Vice President Dan Quayle, recalls her unexpected path to public life after meeting him 18 years ago. She says she embraced supporting him and will do her best in the role, while comments from Steve Sax and Ed O Neill highlight media scrutiny of personal image. Walter Cronkite reveals he has finally begun his memoirs under Knopf, planning a title he may resist.
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Indiana University
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